Bernadette Peters

With the 2014 Tony Nominations announced this morning, we’ve got Tony fever! In anticipation of the performances coming to us June 8 at the 68th Annual Tony Awards, we look back at some of the very best performances in Tony history!

With the news that LaTanya Richardson Jackson will replace Diahann Carroll in the upcoming “A Raisin in the Sun” revival, we look back on some other famous replacements, from Judy Holliday to Morgan Spector.

Patti LuPone at Carnegie Hall; “A Bed and a Chair” at City Center; Todd Robbins at the Geffen with “Play Dead”; a new biography of Bob Fosse; and AFI Fest 2013 are what we’re looking forward to this week.

“Chaplin” and “Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson” are just two in a long line of Broadway musical biographies about real people. Here are five (or so) more bio-musicals ranging from the sublime to the absurd.